Myanmar commits to upgrading ASEAN highway domestic sections by 2009
Friday, 10 August 2007
YANGON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua): Myanmar is striving to complete upgrading its four domestic sections of roads of the ASEAN Highway Network to Class-3 by 2009 under an agreement reached by ASEAN Transport Ministers at their meeting in Yangon last month, the Yangon Times reported today.
Under the guidelines worked out by the regional transport ministers at their meeting in Vietnam in 1999, all 23 roads of the ASEAN highway, which stretches 37,000 kilometres, were designated to be upgraded to Class-3 by 2004 and Class-1 by 2020 out of four classes of the regional standards.
Of the four Myanmar sections of the cross-border ASEAN highway network, the first section runs from Myanmar-India border to Myanmar-Thai border, while the second extends from Myanmar- China border to Myanmar-Thai border.
The third runs as Thaton-Mawlamyine-Dawei-Myeik-Kawthoung, while the fourth as Dawei-Sinphyutaung-Monthi.
Under an aid programme of the ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and South Korea), one of the Myanmar sections was upgraded with the aid of South Korea, while another section was implemented with the help of Thailand.
ASEAN designated four classes of highway-primary, class- 1, class-2 and class-3. The top class, which is primary with concrete roads, has four lanes which provide control system.
Of Myanmar's over 4,500-km-long ASEAN highway, 147 km are reported as class-1, 1,032 km class-3 and 3,163 km below class-3. Myanmar has over 200 km in the incomplete sections of the ASEAN highway. The overall Myanmar section extends across six states and divisions.
Under the guidelines worked out by the regional transport ministers at their meeting in Vietnam in 1999, all 23 roads of the ASEAN highway, which stretches 37,000 kilometres, were designated to be upgraded to Class-3 by 2004 and Class-1 by 2020 out of four classes of the regional standards.
Of the four Myanmar sections of the cross-border ASEAN highway network, the first section runs from Myanmar-India border to Myanmar-Thai border, while the second extends from Myanmar- China border to Myanmar-Thai border.
The third runs as Thaton-Mawlamyine-Dawei-Myeik-Kawthoung, while the fourth as Dawei-Sinphyutaung-Monthi.
Under an aid programme of the ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and South Korea), one of the Myanmar sections was upgraded with the aid of South Korea, while another section was implemented with the help of Thailand.
ASEAN designated four classes of highway-primary, class- 1, class-2 and class-3. The top class, which is primary with concrete roads, has four lanes which provide control system.
Of Myanmar's over 4,500-km-long ASEAN highway, 147 km are reported as class-1, 1,032 km class-3 and 3,163 km below class-3. Myanmar has over 200 km in the incomplete sections of the ASEAN highway. The overall Myanmar section extends across six states and divisions.